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Sister India

by Peggy Payne

Published: 2002-02-05

Paperback: 320 pages

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Hailed by critics, this is a novel of fear and awakening, of culture and chaos, of violence and redemption... and of the mysterious Madame Natraja, an expatriate from South Carolina settled in the holy city of Varanasi near the banks of the Ganges River, and unprepared for the course her life is...

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* * * * * Interesting,
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Sister Mine: A Novel

by Tawni O'Dell

Published: 2008-05-06

Paperback: 432 pages

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Shae-Lynn Penrose drives a cab in a town where no one needs a cab—but plenty of people need rides. A former police officer with a closet full of miniskirts, a recklessly sharp tongue, and a tendency to deal with men by either beating them up or taking them to bed, she has spent years car...

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Sister of My Heart : A Novel

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Published: 2000-01-18

Paperback: 322 pages

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From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha...

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* * * Slow,
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Sister of Silence

by Daleen Berry

Published: 2011-02-18

Paperback: 342 pages

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Follow along on Daleen’s personal journey from coal miner’s wife to teen mom to New York Times best-selling author. After a shotgun wedding, Daleen found herself barefoot and pregnant—and by age twenty-one, the mother of four. After realizing she was an abused wife, Daleen became determined to...

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Sister of Silence: A Memoir

by Daleen Berry

Published: 2011-11-10

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A victim of child sex abuse at age thirteen, she was forced into a shotgun wedding after her high school was featured on national television for having the highest number of pregnant teens in the U.S. But then Daleen Berry found herself married to a coal miner who kept her barefoot and pre...

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Sister Pelagia and the White (Mortalis)

by Boris Akunin

Published: 2007-01-30

Paperback: 273 pages

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?Pelagia's family likeness to Father Brown and Miss Marple is marked, and reading about her supplies a similarly decorous pleasure.??The Literary ReviewIn a remote Russian province in the late nineteenth century, Bishop Mitrofanii must deal with a family crisis. After learning that one of ...

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The Sister Queens

by Sophie Perinot

Published: 2012-03-06

Paperback: 528 pages

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Like most sisters, Marguerite and Eleanor were rivals.  They were also queens. Raised at the court of their father, Raymond Berenger, Count of Provence, Marguerite and Eleanor are separated by royal marriages--but never truly parted.Patient, perfect, and used to being first, Marguerite b...

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Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile

by Julia Fox

Published: 2012-01-31

Hardcover: 480 pages

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The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband's seductive mistress, Anne Boleyn. Katherine's sister, Juana of Castile, wife of Philip of Burgundy and...

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Sister Santee

by Ken Burger

Published: 2010

Hardcover: 264 pages

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Ken Burger uses words like a surgeon's scalpel to peel the skin off his native state, that asylum we all know as South Carolina, exposing its haunted history and some infamously flawed people who crawl out of his mangy imagination.

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Sister Wife

by Shelley Hrdlitschka

Published: 2008-11-01

Paperback: 280 pages

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In the isolated rural community of Unity, the people of The Movement live a simple life guided by a set of religious principles and laws that are unique to them. Polygamy is the norm, strict obedience is expected and it is customary for young girls to be assigned to much older husbands. ...